"We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval……" — Dario Fo
"We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns."
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25 Quotes by Dario Fo
Dario Fo has 25 quotes on this site.
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Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
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We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are…
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being…
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Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
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Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
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Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle…
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A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
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It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express…
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With comedy I can search for the profound.
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When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
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It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that…
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Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
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More Centuries Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the…
— Annie Besant
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of…
— Julie Burchill
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